Active travel investment per head for financial year 2021-22

Siân Berry: What is your planned investment in walking and cycling per head of population in London for the current financial year 2021-22?

The Mayor: Please see my response to question2021/2208.

Active travel investment per head for last five years

Siân Berry: What was your investment in walking and cycling per head of population in London for each of the years: 2016-17, 2017-18 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21?

The Mayor: Transport for London's annual spending on its Healthy Streets portfolio is set out below, with population numbers to calculate spend per head taken from the GLA Housing led population projections.
These figures represent a slight under-estimate of total spending on walking and cycling as they do not include items such as cycle hire, which currently sits outside of the Healthy Streets portfolio within TfL’s operational budget.
Even so, spending per head in London is well-ahead of the England average, which according to Government figures was £6 per person per year in 2016/17.
Whilst the figures for 2020-21 and 2021-22 are lower than for previous years due to the pandemic, the money spent & planned for these two years has and will lead to significantly more infrastructure per pound spent. For example, new segregated cycle lanes have been built and are being planned using temporary materials, at a fraction of the cost as permanent schemes built in previous years.
Spending per head in London since the pandemic is also well ahead of the average spend, with recent research from Cycling UK finding that the average spend on walking and cycling across councils in England was £7.65 per head in 2020-21.
Year
HS spend (£m)
£ per head
2016-17
245
28
2017-18
195
22
2018-19
213
24
2019-20
240
27
2020-21
153
17
2021-22
153
17
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